Quincy High School

Quincy, Massachusetts

FIRM

CLIENT

City of Quincy

AREA

325,000 sq.ft.

TOTAL COST

$126,500,000.00

COMPLETION DATE

9/2010

As a comprehensive high school, Quincy High School (QHS) requires both traditional and vocational programs for students. Previously, the school had consisted of two separate academic and career-based buildings. The school’s requirements included educating 21st-century students by providing excellence in ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONCOST PER SQ FT$389.00FEATURED IN2011 Educational InteriorsINTERIOR CATEGORYVocational/Industrial arts seamless, interdisciplinary environment, in which career and academics are interwoven in everyday work and life.

The design team thoughtfully co-located academic and vocational programs, emulating real-life adjacencies and interactions. The new QHS was designed around four academies of excellence: STEM; Humanities; Fine & Performing Arts; and a Ninth-Grade Academy to support the transition to high school. Career-based learning and traditional learning are fully co-located in one building.

The design team satisfied all square-footage and program requirements for two distinct and rigid state-governed programs (traditional high school and vocational), while working in a severely constrained footprint. The high school was operational through phased construction.

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